Alexa Ray Joel (32), daughter of BILLY JOEL and Christie Brinkley, is engaged! Alexa Ray's long time boyfriend, now fiance, Ryan Gleason (40), proposed while they were on vacation in the Caribbean on Turks and Caicos' exclusive Parrot Cay. Alexa Ray's fiance is a restaurateur and co-owns Drexler's in the East Village section of New York City.